The most popular Netflix title dominating the platform this week is American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden, a gripping three-part Netflix docuseries that traces the intense, decade-long search for the world’s most wanted terrorist after 9/11. Featuring firsthand accounts from CIA agents, military operatives, and officials, it pieces together the shadowy intelligence trail and secret missions that led to the dramatic 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed bin Laden.
Netflix publishes its ranking of the hottest TV shows each week, and we’ll take a closer look at American Manhunt below, as well as the rest of what’s hot on the streamer at the moment.
Netflix Top 10 shows
Here’s this week’s complete list of the Top 10 English-language shows on Netflix, based on the latest updated data from the company:
- American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden — 12.6 million views
- Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story — 8.3 million views
- Forever (Season 1) — 6.7 million views
- The Four Seasons (Season 1) — 5.3 million views
- Bad Thoughts (Season 1) — 3.8 million views
- You (Season 5) — 3.3 million views
- Love, Death & Robots: Vol. 4 — 2.9 million views
- Raw: 2025 (May 12, 2025) — 2.7 million views
- Bet (Season 1) — 2.4 million views
- Ms. Rachel (Season 1) — 2.2 million views
To learn more about some of this week’s other most-watched series, you can go deeper by checking out our previous coverage of some of the Netflix originals above, such as the new season of Love, Death, & Robots. For now, though, let’s focus on the biggest Netflix TV release in the world at the moment.
American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden — #1 on Netflix
The current top-ranked Netflix title globally by viewership, American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden is a #1 show in 19 countries this week. The series, from directors Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy, also explores the global impact of bin Laden’s elusive presence, shedding light on the international cooperation and complex strategies that shaped the manhunt.
“Being thrown into the driver’s seat after the worst attack in American history would rattle anyone, even these brave men and women who had devoted their lives to protecting Americans by assessing geopolitical threats and sounding alarms that were often ignored,” the directors told Netflix’s Tudum site about the hunt for the terrorist mastermind.
“But the intelligence analysts didn’t have time to grieve or reflect. They had a mission at hand: To figure out who did this and stop them before the next attack.”
Among those interviewed in the Netflix docuseries are intelligence operatives and Special Forces professionals, as well as top former national security officials including Leon Panetta and Henry A. Crumpton. Journalists including former ABC reporter John Miller and Nayyera Haq (who previously served as state department spokesperson) are also interviewed, along with former White House officials like Ben Rhodes, who served as deputy national security advisor in President Obama’s administration.
